The battle for best fantasy baseballer in Razzball Nation has begun! Actually, it began with opening day but I’ve finally got around to creating the master standings (also available by clicking the ‘RCL Master Standings’ link on the homepage).

There are 108 competitors across 9 leagues. We created a league index based on the strength of each league. It takes all 10 categories into account and considers the average of all 9 leagues to be at 100. So if a league averages 1% better across all categories than the 9-league average, the league index is 101 and we multiply the point total for everyone in that league by 1.01. This helps to neutralize the playing field across all the leagues.

So who’s #1 at the two week mark? ThirdandKing’s ‘L’Atelier de Joël Piñero’ is crushing the field right now with an 106.5 point score in the toughest league (A Latin 9). Here’s a glance at his Active Stats if you’re curious how he’s managed it.

A couple of notes on the standings:

We’ll start with fortnightly updates (that’s fancy talk for every 2 weeks!). We’ll consider weekly updates as we get deeper into the season.

We prefer to have your commenter handle in the Standings next to your team name. If you want to claim your team, please add a comment to this post and I’ll add it in going forward.

For those in the Fantasy Razzball League (aka the league where you purposely have your team suck), this will be up next Sunday night.

League Strength Index usually has to do with the total Active Stats accumulated by the league… so rookies or not, if they have the stats they have the strength. The fact that he is #1 despite drafting Rollins and Lincecum with his first 2 picks is testament to the hot start of his players… He’ll keep the saves points but I’d be betting on a decline in some on the other pitching categories and his hitting can’t keep it up (except for the players we have in common of course)

@Chase: Noontime nailed it. I didn’t add any subjectivity. I just look at each team’s point total and then the stat totals for their league to create the index. My guess is some leagues might take a temporary lead in Wins and K’s based on streaming starts but that will even out if/when they hit the GS limit.

I figure the fun part is that all the leagues/teams are public so you can see behind the curtain. If someone is having a great year, I might be tempted to keep tabs on his player moves :)

@Rudy Gamble: It would be cool if there was an easy way to pull out all the trades that have happened in the RCLs. Then keep them viewable and with their own comments section for reference (and trash talking hindsight) on a page much like the master standings.

L’Atelier de Joel Pinero here. I am surprised and thrilled to be at the top of the heap in my own league, let alone the RCL in general. I’d like to thank the Academy, my agent, and all the little people.
You like me! You really like me!
What? This is only the first update of the season? Do I get to keep my tro- no, I guess not.

@Chase- How exactly do you define rookies, and why would it have any bearing on our fantasy acumen?
@NoonTime- Zig when they zag! Everyone was ignoring pitchers as long as possible, so I stocked up. But yes, I’ve lucked into a sizzling hot start. If you check my draft analysis in the RCL forums, you’ll see I predicted a 4th-place finish barring surprises.

@ThirdandKing – a collective 2.269 ERA. I hate to see how you do once Lincecum starts rolling! It’s nice to know that you represent our league, which is currently strongest, despite some grumblings from the peanut gallery that we are filled with a bunch of rooks. These nattering nabobs need to get their act together before they engage in criticism.